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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783737303321

Autore

Laker Anthony <1951, >

Titolo

Beyond the boundaries of physical education : educating young people for citizenship and social responsibility / / Anthony Laker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge/Falmer Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-135-70127-X

1-135-70128-8

0-203-13579-2

0-203-16973-5

1-280-40139-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Disciplina

613.7071

Soggetti

Physical education and training - Social aspects

Sports - Social aspects

Citizenship - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [116]-124) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Illustration Acknowledgements; Introduction; An Historical Perspective on the Purposes of Physical Education; Contemporary Physical Education: Aims, Objectives and Purposes; The Extent of the Affective Dimension in Physical Education; From Theory into Practice: What Really Happens in Schools; Responsibility, Personal, Social and Moral Education, and Citizenship: Is This Physical Education for the New Millennium?; The 'Once and Future' Subject: Some Current Issues in Physical Education; Conclusion; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book sets out to celebrate physical education and sport, and by doing so, encourage the educational establishment to embrace the subject area as a vehicle for the complete development of the individual.  In addition, it shows that the benefits of physical activity far outweigh the shallow claims of populous magazines - there are benefits for the individual, the community and for society as a whole. Laker contends that the importance of physical education and sport in many areas of social life has been overlooked at best, and misused at



worst.  Physical activity has a vast contribution to